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Sternly, remorselessly, fate guides each of us; only at the beginning, when we’re absorbed in details, in all sorts of nonsense, in ourselves, are we unaware of its harsh hand.

Ivan Turgenev

What’s important is that twice two is four and all the rest’s nonsense.
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Important Stupidity
Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don’t notice whether it’s passing quickly or slowly.
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Human Known Notice Pass Quick Time
Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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Death Deep Encounter Joke New
We sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
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Reach Stars
A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.
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Difficult Feeling Home Kind Religious Survive Training
All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sorts of difficulties for themselves and spoil their lives.
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Difficult Human Live Moments Open Spoil
A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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Angry Come Himself Person
Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.
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Man Miracle Prayer Reduce
It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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Average Herself Mediocre Vulgar
I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
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Heaven Myself
Don’t force me into saying what I don’t want to say, and what I won’t say.
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Force Myself Talk
Everyone needs help from everyone else.
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Company Help Need Support
What’s terrible is that there’s nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite.
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Degrade Essence Life Terrible
I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.
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Bad Goodness Heart Man Myself Terrible
Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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Happiness Hurt Late Worst
In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
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Beginning Love Myself

Sternly, remorselessly, fate guides each of us; only at the beginning, when we’re absorbed in details, in all sorts of nonsense, in ourselves, are we unaware of its harsh hand.

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Sternly, remorselessly, fate guides each of us; only at the beginning, when we’re absorbed in details, in all sorts of nonsense, in ourselves, are we unaware of its harsh hand.

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